Tape 14, 2000 April
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| - | In your program will agree to that. | 0:00 |
| So at this time, Joanne will make the official presentation. | 0:02 | |
| - | I am very pleased to present this award | 0:12 |
| to Bob Moses, my friend and comrade | 0:16 | |
| and to the Algebra Project. | 0:20 | |
| And I'd like everybody who's connected | 0:23 | |
| with the Algebra Project to stand up and | 0:25 | |
| accept a round of applause. | 0:28 | |
| (applause) | 0:32 | |
| Thank you. | 0:47 | |
| This award is the Ella J Baker Award | 0:49 | |
| for Service to the Community. | 0:54 | |
| And it's presented by my publisher, John Wiley & Sons, | 0:56 | |
| who published Ella Baker: Freedom Bound, | 1:01 | |
| my biography of Ella Baker. | 1:04 | |
| The chairman of the board of John Wiley | 1:07 | |
| was very eager to present this award | 1:11 | |
| because he once met Ella Baker at a meeting | 1:16 | |
| in New York many years ago and he was so impressed by her | 1:19 | |
| that when the book came out, he was really glad | 1:24 | |
| to be able to present this award. | 1:28 | |
| Bob and his wife Janet founded the Algebra Project in 1982. | 1:32 | |
| And I just wanted to read you a very short statement | 1:40 | |
| that's from the Harvard Educational Review | 1:43 | |
| about the project. | 1:45 | |
| The project relies on the Mississippi organizing | 1:49 | |
| tradition and Ella Baker's techniques | 1:54 | |
| as a matter of fact, this article | 1:58 | |
| is entitled "Organizing in the Spirit of Ella". | 2:00 | |
| The Algebra Project emphasizes the centrality | 2:05 | |
| of families to the work of organizing. | 2:10 | |
| The empowerment of grass roots people | 2:14 | |
| and their recruitment for leadership, | 2:16 | |
| and the principle of casting down your bucket where you are | 2:19 | |
| and organizing in the context in which one lives and works. | 2:24 | |
| So I'm very pleased to present this check | 2:32 | |
| to Bob Moses and the Algebra Project. | 2:36 | |
| (applause) | 2:39 | |
| Well, I wanted to try and talk without the mic | 3:10 | |
| cause I'm not gonna talk a lot. | 3:11 | |
| When Joanne and Jackie organized an event | 3:17 | |
| for Ella while she was still alive, | 3:21 | |
| they asked me if I would introduce her. | 3:26 | |
| So when we got up on the podium, | 3:28 | |
| Ella turned to me and said, | 3:32 | |
| well, they got us up here where they put all the others. | 3:34 | |
| (laughter) | 3:38 | |
| So I've been thinking of how to do this, | 3:47 | |
| or what we could do to respect what we are doing here | 3:50 | |
| and Ella, and this morning when I was introduced, | 3:57 | |
| Jackie said she wanted to introduce one of Ella's children. | 4:03 | |
| And so what I thought we could do now | 4:09 | |
| is, and Mrs. Gray did something wonderful | 4:12 | |
| for us this morning when she asked us | 4:16 | |
| to call out the names of people that had gone | 4:18 | |
| before us who helped prepare the way for us. | 4:23 | |
| And so Ella's legacy is her children, | 4:28 | |
| and I was wondering if we couldn't, one by one, | 4:32 | |
| anyone here who recognize him or herself | 4:36 | |
| as one of Ella's children, one by one, | 4:41 | |
| just stand up and say your name for us. | 4:45 | |
| And give flesh and blood and spirit to Ella's legacy. | 4:49 | |
| My name is Bob Moses. | 4:56 | |
| My name is Joanne Grant. | 4:59 | |
| Off Screen Male | Curtis Mohammad. | 5:01 |
| - | [Second Off Screen Male] Laurence Gina. | 5:02 |
| - | [Off Screen Female] Joyce Ladner. | 5:03 |
| 3rd Male Voice | Derrick Jones. | 5:04 |
| 4th Male Voice | Reggie Robinson. | 5:05 |
| 5th Male Voice | Avon Rollins. | 5:07 |
| 6th Male Voice | Michael Jones. | 5:08 |
| 7th Male Voice | Marion Barry. | 5:09 |
| (crowd calling out names) | 5:10 | |
| (applause) | 5:41 | |
| - | Next we would like to recognize Diane Nash. | 6:04 |
| Where'd she go? | 6:08 | |
| Oh, here she is. | 6:12 | |
| We'd just like to recognize Diane as a founder | 6:15 | |
| of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. | 6:21 | |
| The woman who set the standard | 6:25 | |
| for all the women who followed her. | 6:27 | |
| In terms of courage, thoughfulness, militance, and kindness. | 6:30 | |
| Now, Diane, we got rid of all the concrete reward | 6:38 | |
| when we thought you weren't coming. | 6:42 | |
| (laughter) | 6:43 | |
| So, we have a song for you from Mrs. Betty Fykes. | 6:45 | |
| (applause) | 6:51 | |
| ♪ I've been in the storm ♪ | 7:11 | |
| ♪ So long ♪ | 7:16 | |
| ♪ I've been in the storm ♪ | 7:22 | |
| ♪ So long ♪ | 7:27 | |
| ♪ I've been in the storm ♪ | 7:32 | |
| ♪ So long ♪ | 7:38 | |
| ♪ But I'm trying to make heaven my home ♪ | 7:42 | |
| ♪ This is a needed time ♪ | 7:53 | |
| ♪ This is a needed time ♪ | 8:03 | |
| ♪ This is a needed time ♪ | 8:13 | |
| ♪ But I'm trying to make heaven my home ♪ | 8:21 | |
| ♪ Lord mend my wicked ways ♪ | 8:30 | |
| ♪ Lord mend my wicked ways ♪ | 8:39 | |
| ♪ Lord mend my wicked ways ♪ | 8:48 | |
| ♪ And give me more time to pray ♪ | 8:57 | |
| (applause and cheering) | 9:09 | |
| - | That was just beautiful, thank you so much for that Betty. | 9:30 |
| And the beauty of the music and the spirit and the love | 9:33 | |
| with which the award was presented. | 9:40 | |
| The spirit and the love with which that award was presented | 9:45 | |
| is worth much more than money. | 9:49 | |
| (applause) | 9:52 | |
| - | Okay, next, is Ed Brown here? | 10:06 |
| While he's coming, I also want to mention that | 10:14 | |
| the statement that you read in support of Jamil | 10:19 | |
| was originally written by Mike Thelwell | 10:25 | |
| and Saint Clairborne and Bill Strickland | 10:31 | |
| and I sort of formed a committee | 10:33 | |
| where we got it together and sent it off. | 10:36 | |
| So we're asking Ed Brown, his brother, to say a few words. | 10:41 | |
| (applause) | 10:45 | |
| - | Good afternoon. | 11:08 |
| Crowd | Good afternoon. | 11:09 |
| - | Let me say how wonderful it is to be here | 11:11 |
| with all you young people. | 11:13 | |
| (laughter) | 11:14 | |
| There are some of you who are young. | 11:17 | |
| The others, well I lied. | 11:18 | |
| (laughter) | 11:21 | |
| Let me begin by extending to you | 11:25 | |
| the heartfelt gratitude and shalams | 11:29 | |
| of my brother, Jamil Al-Amin. | 11:33 | |
| Most of you may know him as H. Rap Brown. | 11:36 | |
| (applause) | 11:39 | |
| In his own words, he would like for me to greet you | 11:45 | |
| in the way in which Muslims greet each other | 11:48 | |
| and say to you Assalamu alaikum. | 11:53 | |
| Crowd | Assalamu alaikum. | 11:55 |
| - | Jamil, at this point in time, | 11:58 |
| has been incarcerated in the Montgomery County jail. | 11:59 | |
| He is awaiting an extradition hearing | 12:05 | |
| that will take place on the 21st of April. | 12:08 | |
| At which point in time, he will | 12:12 | |
| probably be transferred back to Georgia. | 12:13 | |
| Let me just tell you that Jamil | 12:19 | |
| does not want you or me or anyone | 12:21 | |
| to feel down or depressed about his situation. | 12:25 | |
| Jamil is a fighter, and he will continue to fight | 12:30 | |
| in relationship to these charges | 12:36 | |
| that have been placed against him. | 12:39 | |
| He is in good health, he was not wounded | 12:41 | |
| as was reported by the press. | 12:45 | |
| And there are many other kinds of things | 12:48 | |
| that have been reported by the press, | 12:50 | |
| which you should certainly suspend belief in. | 12:52 | |
| Because they have no foundation in fact. | 12:56 | |
| There has been a deliberate attempt, | 12:59 | |
| in terms of demonizing him, and reducing his humanity. | 13:01 | |
| For those of you who know him, you will know | 13:06 | |
| that many of the allegations that have been leveled at him | 13:10 | |
| are not part of his character. | 13:14 | |
| He said to me, because I have not | 13:17 | |
| had a chance to talk to him in a manner | 13:19 | |
| which is conducive for us to have privacy, | 13:22 | |
| he said to me, he said, don't worry. | 13:26 | |
| The truth will come. | 13:30 | |
| He says truth crushed to earth will rise again. | 13:32 | |
| (crowd murmuring agreement) | 13:35 | |
| So I want you to understand that | 13:36 | |
| you're not looking at someone who is by any means, defeated. | 13:39 | |
| They have touched a rock, and they do not know what kind | 13:45 | |
| of fight they have on their hands in this situation. | 13:49 | |
| I feel that, and he feels that, | 13:54 | |
| the struggle continues, it will continue. | 13:58 | |
| Around his case it will continue. | 14:01 | |
| In terms of requests that people have made of me | 14:04 | |
| about things that they can do. | 14:07 | |
| The first thing is that you can offer him your prayers. | 14:09 | |
| And he does not take that lightly, | 14:13 | |
| as being a religious person. | 14:16 | |
| The second thing that we have to do | 14:18 | |
| is that we have to begin to educate | 14:20 | |
| people about who is Jamil Al-Amin? | 14:22 | |
| Who is H. Rap Brown? | 14:25 | |
| We have to repair and restore his humanity. | 14:26 | |
| We have to see him as the multi-dimensional person he is. | 14:30 | |
| And basically debunk the kinds of charges | 14:35 | |
| that have been made against him that he is simply, | 14:39 | |
| quote "A Black Panther" unquote, | 14:41 | |
| or he is quote "A Cop Killer" unquote. | 14:45 | |
| Jamil has, if you know him, and those | 14:51 | |
| of you who worked with him in the movement, | 14:54 | |
| was courageous and untiring in his efforts | 14:56 | |
| in relationship to the cause in which he believed. | 15:02 | |
| He simply brings that also to what | 15:05 | |
| he sees as his mission now. | 15:07 | |
| Which is the building of an Islamic community | 15:09 | |
| in the United States. | 15:11 | |
| The second thing that we can do is | 15:14 | |
| that we can build support committees for Jamil. | 15:17 | |
| And that becomes important to insure | 15:21 | |
| that we try and create a balanced kind of atmosphere | 15:23 | |
| and eradicate some of the poison | 15:28 | |
| that has been placed in the atmosphere | 15:30 | |
| by the unfair, overwhelming negative coverage | 15:32 | |
| that has been given to him. | 15:36 | |
| The third thing that we can do obviously | 15:39 | |
| is that those of who us, are inclined, | 15:41 | |
| and would like to basically be supporters of his | 15:44 | |
| in terms of financial contributions, | 15:47 | |
| there is a defense fund. | 15:50 | |
| There is a leaflet that will be available to you, | 15:52 | |
| which talks about where you can mail | 15:56 | |
| whatever contribution you so choose to make. | 15:58 | |
| I won't take up any more of your time | 16:02 | |
| with regard to that other than to say: | 16:05 | |
| we are involved, and continue to be involved, | 16:14 | |
| in a struggle. | 16:19 | |
| It's not an ending struggle. | 16:21 | |
| We sometimes forget about the fact, | 16:23 | |
| or we pause and believe that somehow | 16:27 | |
| that struggle has come to an end. | 16:29 | |
| It doesn't come to an end until we die. | 16:31 | |
| As long as there's one person who's oppressed, | 16:35 | |
| we're involved in a struggle. | 16:37 | |
| As long as there's one person who is needed, | 16:39 | |
| who is needed, we're involved in a struggle. | 16:42 | |
| As long as justice is denied to anyone, | 16:45 | |
| justice is denied to us all, | 16:47 | |
| and we're involved in a struggle. | 16:50 | |
| The only thing that I can tell you | 16:52 | |
| in terms of Jamil Al-Amin is that struggle continues. | 16:53 | |
| Thank you. | 16:56 | |
| (applause) | 16:57 | |
| Allow me one moment, because I am remiss here. | 17:05 | |
| I have to do one thing. | 17:08 | |
| I really do appreciate the statement | 17:10 | |
| that was drawn by you and read earlier. | 17:13 | |
| And I will take it to him and share it with him. | 17:18 | |
| I'd like to especially single out Michael Thelwell, | 17:21 | |
| because as I understand it, he labored long and hard | 17:25 | |
| in putting together The Struggle. | 17:28 | |
| I understand that it was 600 pages. | 17:30 | |
| (laughter) | 17:32 | |
| So therefore, I not only thank Michael Thelwell, | 17:43 | |
| I thank the editors as well. | 17:47 | |
| (laughter and applause) | 17:49 | |
| Those of you who haven't received the statement, | 18:01 | |
| it's here at the head table as is a pad | 18:03 | |
| for anybody to sign who wants to do that. | 18:06 | |
| I'm gonna do a couple of housekeeping things | 18:09 | |
| while the people from the Walking Wounded Project | 18:11 | |
| come forward to make their short presentation. | 18:16 | |
| The panels this afternoon, which we hope to start | 18:25 | |
| shortly after 3:30, you might want to take out | 18:27 | |
| your pen and pencils because we've been, | 18:32 | |
| again scrambling for rooms | 18:35 | |
| to accommodate the size of this gathering. | 18:37 | |
| Alright, ah ha, I don't have it. | 18:43 | |
| - | People are beginning to get up and move. | 18:56 |
| Could we ask people to just have a minute | 18:58 | |
| of silent prayer for Brother Al-Amin's part right now? | 19:01 | |
| Because that was one of the things he asked us to do. | 19:04 | |
| - | Oh, okay. | 19:06 |
| There's been a request for a moment of prayer | 19:07 | |
| for Al-Amin, so if we could have one moment | 19:11 | |
| and then we'll go on with the rest, alright. | 19:16 | |
| Thank you. | 19:50 | |
| I'm gonna read very quickly where | 19:54 | |
| the panels are located this afternoon. | 19:57 | |
| Black and white together, and I'm gonna do fast now, | 20:00 | |
| with Ann Braden, Jim Foreman, and Zahara Simmons, | 20:04 | |
| in the Estey Hall Auditorium. | 20:06 | |
| A Discussion of Ain't Scared of Your Jails | 20:09 | |
| with Diane Nash, Reggie Robinson, and Bob Zellner | 20:12 | |
| will be in the C2 in the convention center. | 20:16 | |
| With Bob Zellner as the moderator, | 20:22 | |
| Tim Jenkins is the moderator on the first one. | 20:24 | |
| The Media, 60s and Now, the third panel | 20:27 | |
| will be in the convention center D2, | 20:29 | |
| with Julian Bond, Doris Derby, and Dottie Zellner. | 20:32 | |
| Organizing Student Movements Today, D3, | 20:36 | |
| MacArthur Cotton, Dave Dennis, Hollis Watkins, | 20:41 | |
| Sekou Franklin, Deidre Edwards, and Susan Glisson. | 20:45 | |
| Teaching the Movement in the Primary Grade | 20:49 | |
| will be conducted by Maggie Donovan | 20:52 | |
| in the Ennis Room of Estey Hall. | 20:55 | |
| Contemporary Organizing: Combining Labor with Communities | 20:58 | |
| with Curtis Hayes Mohammad, Pat Bryant, and Charles Insley | 21:02 | |
| will be in the Estey Conference room. | 21:07 | |
| The Sit-in Movement, these are heck panels here, boy. | 21:11 | |
| Deon Diamond, Charles Jones, Avon Rollins, Frank Smith, | 21:15 | |
| and Virginius Thornton will be | 21:20 | |
| at the Convention Center in E2. | 21:22 | |
| Organizing in Alabama with Eric Jones, Janet Moses, | 21:25 | |
| Cleave Sellers, will be in E3. | 21:32 | |
| How Do We Get to the Just Society? | 21:37 | |
| With Casey Hayden, James Lawson, Bob Moses | 21:40 | |
| in C1 in the Convention Center. | 21:45 | |
| Gender and Democratic Movements, | 21:48 | |
| Victoria Gray and Gloria Richardson. | 21:51 | |
| (laughter) | 21:57 | |
| Offscreen Male | Where will that be? | 21:59 |
| - | Oh, I'm sorry in E1 in the Convention Center. | 22:00 |
| The film Freedom Song will be shown | 22:07 | |
| in Room B in the Convention Center with discussants | 22:12 | |
| Dorie Ladner, June Johnson, Chuck Mcdew, and Brenda Travis, | 22:17 | |
| all people who are featured in this film | 22:24 | |
| directly or indirectly I understand. | 22:26 | |
| Teaching in the Spirit of Ms. Baker: | 22:28 | |
| The Algebra Project and the Freedom Rides | 22:31 | |
| will be in the Convention Center in E4. | 22:33 | |
| Freedom Schools: Then and Now | 22:37 | |
| with Charlie Cobb and Mary Lane | 22:40 | |
| in E5 in the Convention Center. | 22:44 | |
| And Teaching the Movement: What Do Our Students Get From It? | 22:48 | |
| Will be in the snack bar out here. | 22:52 | |
| We ran out of rooms. | 22:54 | |
| With John Dittmer, Timothy Tyson, and myself. | 22:56 | |
| Tomorrow. | 23:03 | |
| I totally lost it. | 23:08 | |
| Crowd | Tonight, what about tonight? | 23:09 |
| - | Everything else is... | 23:12 |
| The book signing's in The William Gary Student Center | 23:15 | |
| from five to six. | 23:21 | |
| And then there's a freedom walk that begins | 23:24 | |
| at the Sheraton Hotel at seven and the... | 23:27 | |
| Male Voice | Is that canceled? | 23:31 |
| Last night they said that was canceled. | 23:32 | |
| - | Is it canceled? | 23:33 |
| Oh I'm sorry, it was canceled. | 23:34 | |
| Then at 8:00, the cultural evening with a wonderful concert | 23:36 | |
| by the SNCC Freedom Singers | 23:40 | |
| will be at St. Peters AME Church. | 23:42 | |
| St. Paul's. | 23:46 | |
| Some say Peter, and some say Paul. | 23:48 | |
| (laughter) | 23:52 | |
| Where is it? | 23:56 | |
| (crowd chatting) | 23:58 | |
| Where is the Walking Wounded? | 24:10 | |
| Quickly, so we can... | 24:12 | |
| Come on. | 24:15 | |
| Female Voice | Where is the church? | 24:18 |
| Male Voice | Edenton and Harrington Street. | 24:23 |
| - | Edenton and Harrington Streets. | 24:26 |
| You should have a map in your packets. | 24:35 | |
| Can we have your attention for one more presentation please. | 24:55 | |
| Could you hold down one minute please? | 25:05 | |
| We're not finished. | 25:07 | |
| - | My name is Wazir Peacock, | 25:14 |
| some know me as Willie B Peacock. | 25:15 | |
| Whichever you can think of will do. | 25:17 | |
| I'm here, this is not gonna be a long talk. | 25:21 | |
| I'm really making this presentation to some key people here. | 25:23 | |
| And, you know, not really leaving anyone out, | 25:27 | |
| but Tim Jenkins made a referral | 25:31 | |
| to what we're trying to really deal with, | 25:35 | |
| and that is many of us who were part of that legacy | 25:38 | |
| of Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, | 25:43 | |
| SCLC, and CUA, NAACP, who worked out in the field, | 25:46 | |
| and really became close comrades in arms | 25:51 | |
| and did many things and experiences together. | 25:54 | |
| You hear of such things as you walk through the halls | 25:57 | |
| since you've been here, people, oh | 25:59 | |
| I haven't seen you in 35 years. | 26:01 | |
| Man, I'm really glad to hear you. | 26:04 | |
| Oh, your brother passed, man, that was three years ago. | 26:05 | |
| Many people don't even know anything about that. | 26:08 | |
| My brother was a part of the Freedom Singers. | 26:10 | |
| What I'm trying to say is that we, | 26:12 | |
| on the West Coast, we've identified about 60 people | 26:14 | |
| that live out there that we could identify | 26:18 | |
| as walking wounded that have many needs, | 26:21 | |
| psychologically and physically ill, | 26:24 | |
| and spiritual, depression. | 26:27 | |
| And we decided we would come together | 26:31 | |
| and form a committee that made up such people | 26:33 | |
| as Jean Wiley, myself, and Betita, some of you know | 26:38 | |
| as Elizabeth Sutherland Martinez, | 26:43 | |
| and Mary Lovelace O'Neal and Mike Miller and so on. | 26:48 | |
| I've passed out some of the proposals that we've drafted, | 27:00 | |
| which will become the application | 27:05 | |
| that we made to the Tithes Foundation, | 27:11 | |
| we're gonna make to the Tithes Foundation. | 27:12 | |
| To receive tax exempt funds to begin | 27:15 | |
| to, not bring together money, but a staff of us | 27:19 | |
| to go around and bring together | 27:28 | |
| some type of identifying of those people | 27:29 | |
| that worked with us so closely and are in dire need of help. | 27:34 | |
| So if they are, sinking so low that they are not, | 27:39 | |
| don't have the willingness or the energy | 27:45 | |
| to access these resources that already exist, | 27:47 | |
| that we can be friends and start communication | 27:54 | |
| with each other to begin to heal ourselves | 27:57 | |
| and that kind of thing. | 28:02 | |
| So this is what the, the gist of what | 28:05 | |
| the Walking Wounded Program is all about. | 28:08 | |
| Many people that was on the committee | 28:10 | |
| that when we were forming that word, | 28:12 | |
| they don't like that name, so we've got two things. | 28:14 | |
| The Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement | 28:17 | |
| or The Walking Wounded of the Civil Rights Movement. | 28:19 | |
| But anyway, nobody's going to volunteer | 28:22 | |
| and come together and heal us. | 28:24 | |
| We're gonna have to heal ourselves. | 28:26 | |
| We're gonna have to write our own history | 28:28 | |
| the way we want it written. | 28:30 | |
| And we're gonna have to exhibit | 28:32 | |
| the archival stuff in the places | 28:36 | |
| and things where we want them. | 28:38 | |
| And as many of us, that are still alive, | 28:40 | |
| and so disjointed so far as being in contact | 28:45 | |
| with each other, that's very bad, | 28:51 | |
| I don't know if we think we've got forever to live here | 28:53 | |
| that one of these days, after a while, | 28:57 | |
| we're going to just, we're gonna | 28:58 | |
| be in touch with each other. | 29:00 | |
| When we get the resources, when | 29:01 | |
| we get rich or something, you know. | 29:03 | |
| But we could put out a, we could write each other. | 29:05 | |
| We could form, where in the states where we have | 29:07 | |
| at least three to five people, | 29:11 | |
| we could form ourselves a committee | 29:14 | |
| to make sure we are in touch with people, | 29:16 | |
| the rest of us in other states, | 29:20 | |
| and out of the country, wherever we are, | 29:22 | |
| so that we can form a tight unit and maybe | 29:25 | |
| start that as a project to try to restore | 29:28 | |
| and make healthy again the beloved community | 29:34 | |
| and expand that internationally as we set out to do. | 29:38 | |
| So you will see me walking around here, | 29:42 | |
| I don't intend to leave anybody out, | 29:45 | |
| but I want to make sure those of us | 29:48 | |
| who have this work to do are | 29:50 | |
| bringing ourselves back together. | 29:52 | |
| Get this proposal that we formulated | 29:54 | |
| to begin our work of doing that. | 30:02 | |
| Some of you I've already given this to. | 30:05 | |
| And at this time, we have developed a type of website, | 30:09 | |
| I'm gonna let Betita talk about that to you. | 30:14 | |
| Thank you. | 30:18 | |
| (applause) | 30:21 | |
| Just two minutes okay. | 30:26 | |
| As my brother here was explaining, | 30:29 | |
| Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement, | 30:32 | |
| we don't have a Veteran's Administration | 30:33 | |
| to take care of folks. | 30:35 | |
| There's all kinds of groups, the Veterans | 30:36 | |
| of the Spanish Civil War, the Lincoln Brigade, | 30:38 | |
| they've got an organization. | 30:40 | |
| World War II Veterans have an organization. | 30:41 | |
| People in other struggles have organizations. | 30:43 | |
| There is none for the Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement. | 30:45 | |
| So that's the idea here. | 30:48 | |
| And we're calling it the Veterans | 30:50 | |
| of the Civil Rights Movement Project, | 30:51 | |
| or if you like to say Walking Wounded, | 30:53 | |
| because some people definitely are. | 30:55 | |
| The website is a major tool of this project. | 30:57 | |
| And I'm gonna just talk two minutes | 31:00 | |
| about what is on that website, which is up now, | 31:02 | |
| if anybody wants to write it down, | 31:05 | |
| it's www.crmvet.org. | 31:06 | |
| Crowd | Can you do it again? | 31:13 |
| - | Alright, (foreign language) | 31:14 |
| www.crmvet Civil Rights Movement Veterans, right. | 31:17 | |
| .org. | 31:24 | |
| And there'll be some interest in it, | 31:26 | |
| I think, also for young folks. | 31:28 | |
| Not just for the older wounded. | 31:29 | |
| I'll get to the reason for that in a minute. | 31:31 | |
| Male Voice | Does the vet have s on it? | 31:34 |
| - | No, just vet. | 31:35 |
| Yeah, www.crm .crmvet.org. | 31:36 | |
| So that's the website, it is up and running. | 31:45 | |
| It's just started and has three sections. | 31:47 | |
| Three sections, four sections. | 31:50 | |
| One is a section that I think | 31:52 | |
| will be of interest to everybody, | 31:54 | |
| which is what we're calling the Veteran Section. | 31:56 | |
| It's where we're asking people | 31:58 | |
| to post information about themselves. | 32:00 | |
| What you were before in the Civil Rights Movement, | 32:02 | |
| what you're doing now, how you are, | 32:04 | |
| put a picture of yourself in there, hey, | 32:07 | |
| you can put photos on websites, right. | 32:08 | |
| So everybody can see how gorgeous you still are or whatever. | 32:10 | |
| (laughter) | 32:13 | |
| You can look up people there, | 32:14 | |
| which you haven't been able to find. | 32:16 | |
| Which is another asset, we think, to this project. | 32:17 | |
| You can post information about anything you want to, | 32:20 | |
| just as long as it's not 99 pages long. | 32:23 | |
| Secondly, there'll be information on this website | 32:26 | |
| about resources that we hope to find might help people. | 32:29 | |
| Like ways to get health insurance maybe cheap or free. | 32:32 | |
| Whatever the needs are for the different needs | 32:37 | |
| that Wazir mentioned, and also putting people in touch | 32:40 | |
| to form local committees, like he said. | 32:44 | |
| Because a few folks in the Bay Area can't do it alone. | 32:46 | |
| Nor should we. | 32:49 | |
| But that would be some of the communication | 32:51 | |
| that we're, and identification resources. | 32:53 | |
| Third, there'll be a memorial section | 32:56 | |
| where, you know sometimes you find out two years later, | 32:58 | |
| well, so and so died, you know, last week, or whatever. | 33:00 | |
| We can keep more up to date on those things | 33:03 | |
| and people can pass the word | 33:06 | |
| about those who have passed as they wish. | 33:07 | |
| And finally will be the list of resources | 33:10 | |
| and links to getting more information about them. | 33:14 | |
| So, we hope that you all will consider | 33:16 | |
| adding your names and your histories | 33:18 | |
| and photos if possible to the website. | 33:21 | |
| And sort of the motto, I think, | 33:24 | |
| at least for me, behind this website, | 33:25 | |
| is that the circles go unbroken. | 33:28 | |
| All the circles, thank you. | 33:31 | |
| (applause) | 33:33 | |
| - | One final thing is that we want to recognize Joanne Grant | 33:35 |
| who formed the fundamental idea for this conference | 33:42 | |
| and for Charles Payne and Dr. Moses for taking it up. | 33:45 | |
| (applause) | 33:51 | |
| - | And let us thank Martha Norman for organizing it. | 33:56 |
| - | And I'm asking Brenda Travis and Muriel Tillinghast | 34:08 |
| to go to the Gender Panel. | 34:12 | |
| Thank you. | 34:16 | |
| (crowd chatting) | 34:18 |